Confessions of a Sexist Pig

A Phoenix pick

Jack (Edward Kerry) confidently confesses to the camera that he's a sexist pig. A handsome soap star who flits from woman to woman, Jack is full of "primitive instinct" and anti-monogamous theories about male/female relationships. Then he meets his formidable but beautiful new leading lady, Anne (Traylor Howard). She's looking for friendship and love, so naturally she has no patience for a player like Jack. But then she decides that her life is too serious and that she should have a fling with her co-star, no strings attached. This has to be Jack's dream non-relationship. So why is he barging into her apartment while she has another date there? And professing his love for her? Confronted by a broken, sweaty Jack, the date pronounces in disgust, "What a dork."

In director Sandy Tung's Confessions, the camera perspective alternates as Jack's confessional, the soap-opera camera, and an observer of Jack's daily exploits. This potentially disruptive maneuver works pretty smoothly -- especially since the soap scenes between Jack and Anne cleverly play with the audience's perception of what's going on in real life. And in the confessional, we get to see Jack bumble around with his failed theories and lose his smarmy, pretty-boy approach to women. Ah, what love can do to even the most sexist of pigs. Oink, oink, my good man. Screens at the Copley Place Thursday, September 17 at 7:45 and 9:45 p.m. and Friday, September 18 at 10:45 a.m. and 1:15 and 3:30 p.m.

-- Rachel O'Malley

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Film Festival Feature Films

| The Witman Boys | The Cruise | Confessions of a Sexist Pig | Melting Pot | Pleasantville | Clay Pigeons | Waking Ned Devine | Blood, Guts, Bullets, & Octane | My Name is Joe | Six Ways to Sunday | The Theory of Flight | A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries | Down in the Delta | Children of Heaven | I Married a Strange Person | 20 Dates | Bandits |

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